It stood as the sole authorized film production organization in Nazi-occupied France.
The film Safe Conduct (Laissez-passer, 2002) depicts life and work at Continental, based on the memoirs of director Jean Devaivre.
The director of Continental Film was the German producer Alfred Greven, who was born in 1897 in Elberfeld and died in 1973 in Cologne.
Some of the films he produced were The Old and the Young King, The Green Domino and The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes.
In 1940, Goebbels appointed him managing director of the newly established Continental Film, his direct superior being Max Winkler.